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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 1d

“Beginner scientists have less loyalty to prevailing assumptions, and they can take more intellectual freedom” <3

Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

2025. #DEI. Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers. Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.

www.nature.com

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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 1d

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to oversee research in #Wales with #seabirds and #waders: buff.ly/qkTVU6m

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Kristi Hannam, PhD @byrdgyrl1.bsky.social · 3d

#bioacoustics postdoc available at WhOI

Xavier Mouy @xaviermouy.bsky.social · 4d

🧪🐟🔉WHOI's Postdoctoral Scholars Program is now accepting applications.

Application deadline: December 1, 2025.

If you’re interested in bioacoustics, signal processing, AI/ML, or low-cost instrumentation, and are considering applying, feel free to get in touch with me.

www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/e...

Postdoctoral Scholar Program - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Eighteen-month Postdoctoral Scholar awards are offered to recipients of new or recent doctorates in the fields of chemistry, engineering, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, physics, and bi...

www.whoi.edu

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 4d

We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👦

We are recruiting for 5 roles:

Secretary 👩‍🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑‍💻

Feel free to DM for details & email [email protected] to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 8d

Working with marine mammals and done with harassment? Society of Marine Mammalogy's DEI commity is organising a series of meetings to (finally!) address this: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A Frank Conversation About Harassment

Thank you for your interest in joining the SMM DEI Committee to discuss this difficult topic. We have six planned meetings in alternating months across various time zones to provide flexibility for th...

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International Bioacoustics Society IBAC @ibacsocial.bsky.social · 8d

👋 The International #Bioacoustics Society (#IBAC) is now on Bluesky!
🎶🦉🦇🐬🐞 Follow us for society news, events, and advances in bioacoustics research from around the world.
🌍 Let’s connect the global community exploring life through sound. 🔊

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 9d

Arctic Frontiers' Emerging Leaders Programme is open for another couple of days: arcticfrontiers.com/emerginglead...

A program for young Arctic professionals - Arcticfrontiers.com

The program centers around holistic and honest discussions about the future of the Arctic.

arcticfrontiers.com

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 10d

Every few years, I revisit Stories We Live By
www.storiescourse.org/thecourse (and now there's a new edition, .../new !) and I think if you like linguistics, the Earth not dying, and Flight of the Bumblebee, you might like it too.

The Course | Stories We Live By

Start the course here

www.storiescourse.org

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Dan Chamberlain @danc-eco.bsky.social · 12d

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

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Behavioral Ecology and Endocrinology Lab @behavecol-lab.bsky.social · 21d

Please share!🙏
🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 17d

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

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Helen Mylne @helephantmylne.bsky.social · 16d

3yr PDRA at @exeter.ac.uk with @york.ac.uk and Centre for Whale Research, studying how killer whale social relationships change with prey availability, partner loss and social info. A fantastic team & unique longterm dataset. Deadline 19 Oct!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Exeter

Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 17d

Textbook recommendation?

Dear #biology bsky: a philisopher friend of mine is looking for accessible textbooks on basic concepts in ecology, and is esp. interested in co-evolution and symbiosis. If you have brilliant materials to share/books to recommend, that would be great!

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 17d

There are just two weeks left to apply for our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme! ⏰🌏

If you're based in the Global South and interested in learning about the peer review process through hands-on experience then learn more below 🧪👇

bit.ly/47uwYlD

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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 25d

Bioacoustics Winter School - January 2026
Time to apply! 👇Program and application form👇

www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...

Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab

www.eneslab.com

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 24d

🔊 Cornell lab of #ornithology is looking for a full professor in animal comm & behaviour, and I think y'all are amazing and overqualified, sooo: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/302...

Job Listings

Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.

academicjobsonline.org

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 25d

Important perspectives on sci comm from DeGruyter: The platform dilemma: Where next for academic social media?
blog.degruyter.com/wp-content/u...

Thank you Samantha for sharing this and the amazing communication via my absolutely favourite and consistently great @oceanoculus.com

blog.degruyter.com

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 25d

P.S. If you're a PhD student and need another project 'cause for some reason you're not busy enough, do apply - we can arrange an Erasmus+ visit and would be stoked to have you over!

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 25d

🔊 This the season! Looking or two MSc students to tackle
1. vocal efficiency across pipit species
and, surpsingly,
2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!)

Drop me a line! I love people! :)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

MSc project

MSc thesis projects in animal communication Laws of brevity across pipit (Anthus) species Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent word...

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 25d

Neighbouring males sing differently!
Flycatchers: Jablonszky et al: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Yellowhammers: myself et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Close Males Sing With Dissimilar Minimum Frequency and Repertoire Size in a Wild Passerine

Spatial patterns in song can be influenced by social relationships, but this phenomenon is understudied. Using a long-term dataset, we showed that close birds sing with different minimum frequencies ...

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Galactic Polymath Education Studio (GP) @galacticpolymath.com · 27d

Scientists, only 2 weeks left to share your work, why it matters & win up to $500!
It's as easy as making a slideshow with our template. This #MySciJourney challenge sponsored by @ncse.bsky.social #scicomm 🧪🔊🐸
👉https://galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scijourney-scicomm-competition-2025

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Lena Gies @lenagies.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you to everyone at #ibac2025 for this amazing conference. I met so many great people and learned a lot about so many interesting projects. Excited to see you all again some time! And proud that my poster got the student poster price ☺️ stay tuned for the publication!

Me with my poster on the greylag goose vocal repertoire and how data representation types influence the predictions of unsupervised methods

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animal prattle @animal-prattle.bsky.social · 28d

🐸〽️ribbit response 〽️🐸

@lukelarter.bsky.social et al. use dynamic playbacks to study how túngara frog males use acoustic cues from complex choruses to time their calls

🐸 single call stim -> little overlap in response
🐸 overlapping + synchronous call stim >>> overlap

#prattle
#bioacoustics 💬

Figure 1 from paper showing automated playback setup, schematic of experiment, and an example of male túngara frog responses to playbacks, shown as oscillograms

Figure 4 from paper with curves showing how various measures of response behavior depend on different playbacks. Notably the overlapping + synchronous stimulus greatly increases probability of a response overlapping with a stimulus call

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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 28d

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#bioacoustics

Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe

Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.

www.nature.com

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